Author: Bob

As I crossed the finish line, emotion welled up inside me. In fact, I cried. I don’t know why that happens to me after long races sometimes. It just does. I was completely spent. Nothing left in the tank. I also felt tremendous gratitude. Gratitude for being done. Gratitude for having spent a few hours […]

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You have to love a town that has free parking on the street… where bikes travel at the same speed as cars…. where a taxi ride anywhere in town or a smoothie costs $1… where you bump into the same person you met the day before in the supermarket… where there are no malls…. and […]

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Seeing Benjamin and Adam jettison themselves off the bridge nearly 400 feet above the rocks and river below, made my heart skip a beat. Fortunately the rope tied to their ankles held, and after a quick jerk they just swung back and forth like a pendulum on an old grandfather clock. The month prior Adam […]

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Carrie, Adam, Benjamin and I, along with our friends Patrick and Andreas from Sweden, two other visiting climbers, and guided by Adrian, summited Ccampa Nevado (18,015 feet). Using ice axes, crampons, and ropes, drinking in the little oxygen available, placing one foot in front of another, we were rewarded with an incredible sense of accomplishment […]

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I could feel my heart thumping in my chest as I stood on the edge of the precipice looking down 500 feet. The narrow paths in the high Andes Mountains connect one incredible ruin to another with shear drop offs and no railings. This is where the Incas built their homes, forts and temples, and […]

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“Yo no comprendo numero 3. What did you put? I sit on the sofa with Benjamin, my soon to be 13 year old son, studying Spanish. In many cases he knows more than his father. Adam is finishing Book 2 when the rest of us are still in Book 1. So much for parents […]

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Sliding a knife down the back of a fish, guts slopping on the cutting board, carving off chunks of meat … Cleaning fish is what you have to do after having a great day out on the water. A “go day” as my grandfather used to refer to those magical days soaking in the sun […]

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Last weekend I had the opportunity to be part of something good. Nearly 5,000 runners participated in the 13.1 NYC Half Marathon that raised $250,000 to provide clean water for families in Africa through a World Vision project. Because of the support of many friends and family, my part was raising enough money for 22 […]

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There have been 1,001 details to work out for this trip on a very short timeline. Where will we go? What will we do? How will our kids continue their schooling? Plane tickets, language school, insurance, communications, money, visas… Not to mention moving out of our house, storing furniture, our dog, fish, turtle, renting […]